skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is state senate, so the districts are pretty small. 35 districts in a state of a million or so people. If it's anything like 99.99% of the state senate races in the US, most of the voters in that district probably didn't even know she was running. She's not even the incumbent, so she didn't have that going for her. If there's ever races that favor incumbents, it's state government seats. People just push the incumbent button.

So what could have triggered this? Was she really that much of a threat?

Seems like a small state party just screwed up and brought attention to someone that very likely would have lost anyway. Now it's interesting.

Seems to be semi-rural, from google maps...

EDIT- corrected suburban to semi-rural
The way in which you formulate responses tends to go a long way in determining the reaction you will get. Disagreeing with people is fine and good, disparaging them for lacking common sense or being foolish is generally not helpful and shows either a high level of immaturity or a profound lack of understanding of effective human communication.

Here is a quick rewrite of the snarkiest bit of the post that I think is not only drastically more civil but just as effective:

"I fear the reasoning here is incorrect as it conflates correlation with causation. Being too hasty in using this conclusion with machine learning would be a mistake."

I know there is a segment here that doesn't believe tone/communication style should matter, that it is, or should be, entirely about the underlying verisimilitude of their statements; unfortunately, that is not how 99% of human beings actually operate. So while you are free to rail against reality it will make you drastically less effective than you might otherwise be.
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I love definitions that wax my ego! I grok revision control, and can sling enough R / stats to officially make me a nerd of an urban planner. Does this mean I can start calling myself an "urban data scientist"? I definitely need a pay raise.
We currently rebranded everything from DropClock.com to eFreeme.com. The phonetics of the name of DropClock weren't that good and in addition most people confused it with DropBox. eFreeme.com on the other hand was easily understandable when saying it the first time. With that being said, we are currently selling DropClock.com domain in addition to 6000 stickers that are tailored to some sort of Buy/Sell website. We have over 5K invested in this brand and to just push it aside was a bit of a sore spot for me, but hoping that it's worth it in the long run.

My previous company was named UsedVancouver.com, unfortunately we needed to register every city in the world, and we did, so we ended up managing about 1200 domains.... OUCH. So if you have a product that is going to scale to individual cities make sure you make it generic enough to just "subdomain" it like craigslist does.

A short and catchy domain is what you want. However it's difficult to find those, but they are out there! And more importantly it's good to find a domain search engine that gives you lots of options. Good luck!
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8.) Scheiß auf Deutsch für Ausländer, wir können eh alle Englisch.
I would expect a bit more than JS validation as that's only client slide.
Dynamic typing basically says "Hey compiler forget about type checking, just believe me that this thing has that type."
I'm not a designer but I've been trying to learn more about design stuff and I'm still trying to get a grip on responsive design stuff.

Can you tell me a little bit about why you prefer Foundation's responsive grid system over Bootstrap's? I just started using Foundation 3 for a personal project, but I picked it basically because it's developed on Sass and I already know and am comfortable with Sass.

Also, I'd love to know if anyone has any experience using Susy grid system on Sass and how it compares to Foundation and Bootstrap grid systems. I found Susy a little more difficult to get started with because their documentation isn't very good and because I don't yet have a good grasp on how to design for a responsive grid.
The Steve Jobs I Knew (Mossberg Repost)
"Our office when we're not posing for an architect competition" -Mojang
Is the solar system the highest you could go? What if you had no idea of a solar system, what would you have seen?
I doubt they charge more than all the trackpad patents
Isn't that just because the default homepage in safari is apple.com?
No, most definitely not. Atheism will get you nowhere in American politics. We'll have a gay president before we have an atheist president. Which, truth be told, I would love a gay atheist engineer for president. Let's get our priorities straight :)
But didn't Steve Jobs threaten to "Go Nuclear" with patents?
(Context: "You won't believe how nice Notch's office is " - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601573)
I disagree. There's no goal here.

Being able to say "no" is important, but so is knowing when to say "no" and when to say "yes".

If somebody tries to drag you onto an irrelevant tangent in a meeting, that's when you should say "no". If somebody is talking to you one-on-one and you discover that they actually care about something different than you thought, that's when you should say "yes".

The problem with this scenario is that it pretends to measure a person's ability to say "no" all while giving them no reason whatsoever to actually say "no".

If you want to test a person's ability to say "no", you have to put them in a situation where that's actually the correct move.
I also prefer the Casals recordings, although I have yet to meet anyone who is not a cello player that had the same opinion.
> Is there any more widely deployed software in the world than SQLite?

zlib or libjepg, maybe.
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If you use Android SDK and install the Android 4.1 Intel Atom image, install HAX and enable GPU emul for your AVD, it works way better than this thing.
awesome comparison, thanks!
I dont think so. Having migrated to Ruby and Rails from PHP there are a number of compelling differences that will avert the gloom and doom the author seems to mention:

* Rails is driven/maintained by really high quality developers who adhere to best practices

* The project is well-organized, opinionated and focused, developers tend to follow the one right way of doing things.

* The Rails Ecosystem of gems and plugins has whole gamut of solutions to various engineering problems. These gems vary from excellent to horrible, with the excellent ones floating to the top and become standard for use.

* Rails encompasses best practices that were learned from years of making mistakes with PHP and Java development. It is that much more evolved as a result.

In general, I would say the main difference is Rails seems more top down in the direction of ideas and best practices. People tend to mold themselves and their code to fit with the best practices displayed by core or by seasoned Ruby developers.

PHP on the other hand seems more like a free for all, with little top down influence at all.
Romney only wants power, and he's willing to do anything or say anything, even if that means saying the exact opposite of what's really on his official platform, in debates.

I'm not a fan of Obama. I'm more of a Ron Paul/Gary Johnson fan, which puts me in antithesis with a lot of stuff Obama has been doing, but Romney just makes me sick to my stomach hearing him go through his lies, thinking the people hearing him then forgot what he said a day or a month earlier, or simply thinking they don't realize that he will do what he and his masters tell him to do if he becomes president, regardless of what he says in the campaign or in debates.

I truly believe Romney would be a worse president than Bush, and as a non-American that affects me directly, because Bush has been a catastrophe internationally, and has made US become more hated abroad. Romney would embarrass and make US even more hated if he becomes president. Heck, he already started doing that in his visits abroad during the campaign, in Israel and UK.

You Americans need to fight for the right to a 3rd party or more than just 2 candidates in the debates. Obama and Romney are not real choices, and it's a classic example of choosing between "terrible" and "how-can-you-even-consider-voting-for-that-guy-terrible".

There are 43% so called "independents" right now, more than Democrats and more than Republicans, and yet 90% of them vote again and again a Republican or a Democrat. Do you even realize that if half of them decided to vote 3rd party, that candidate would actually be in debates, and might even win? Why are those people calling themselves independents if they keep voting Republican or Democrats over and over again?
So? It's still fun to tell people about it. http://xkcd.com/1053/
The fundamental question is whether there is such a thing as too much entrepreneurship. I personally think no. Also I think having more entrepreneurs is better than more investment bankers. Net net, I think there is a greater benefit to society through even failed entrepreneurship.

Anyways, market forces will weed out all these starstruck entrepreneurs out within 6 months and they will be back working for big co in no time. Also with the low cost of starting a company now, one can write off the failed biz as a short term MBA course.

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I tried that and it didn't work. It turns out there is a rectangle about 80px wide or so that you need to hit.
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That's actually the only place ML^F ever requires type annotations - when you want to take a polymorphic function as argument and use it at different types. MLF is basically as strong as inference for polymorphic types gets, so it's not surprising annotations might be needed here too. (intersection types handle the example nicely, but I don't know of any languages using them).

If you want to faithfully translate the idea that 5 and "Test" are different values that can be passed into the same places but told apart by tests if you want, you might translate the second line to something like f (\x -> x) (Left 5) (Right "Test"), which does pass.
really, do we have to beat this horse to death every single time?
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"Unfortunately, 100% testing is only effective if you can detect 100% of the errors generated."

Wow, the word "only" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Because these tests don't find literally every single problem, you would honestly say they are not effective?
Works on Chromium on OpenSuse.
the products were front and center in the video
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You can't. Steve says it himself very well: "Apple is not about technology" :)
A coworker and I were de-duping records in a database. One of us said while pairing on the script "well, every slave needs a master."

An african american woman in the office turned to us and said "maybe it's the master who needs the slave?"

She wasn't really offend or anything and she said it with a sincere smile. She was just calling out our idiotic computer lingo for what it was.

After apologizing feeling like complete idiots we quickly changed our terminology both in words and in the script to parent/child.
The part you quoted says that decompressor + compressed data must be smaller than the original data. You can make the compressor arbitrarily large, but it will not allow you to "cheat" in the way you stated (by moving data into the decompressor), because you'd also have to increase the decompressor size for that.
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Google released a toolkit for building and running large-scale reranking models
Original release announcement at: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/refr-new-open-source-framework-for.html
Systems actually come standard with 48 gigs :) As it turns out, that's really useful for the part of my job requiring data modeling.

Somebody suggested LinkedIn is one large application, which is absolutely false. It's composed of many small applications, each deployed as a WAR file since the non-Node.js part of the site is on the JVM. There's a lot of overhead that comes from deploying this way. It doesn't matter in production or staging, but it adds up on a desktop.

At this point in time though, dev machines have stopped growing because we have shared stacks you can deploy a couple pieces of the application against if you want to test the whole thing.
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And here we have a live example of the target demographic the political advert was target towards.

I'm surprised that a WoW player running for political office doesn't in and of it's self alter your expectations of players.
You are correct. I kind of ran out of steam there. Here is a bit more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418820000094781
Original announcement at: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/refr-new-open-sou...
Good coding is half art, 1/2 science. During creative periods I can go on coding for hours with out even realizing it. When I work like that, I easily go through the night pulling the "midnight oil". The only difference between now (at 50) and then, is the recovery time from the all nighter. Lately I tend to be less motivated to do it so often.
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The level may be the same, however the sheer volume of mud slung in this campaigns cycle dwarf anything seen before, thanks largely to super PACs. We're probably not going to see anything like this again, until the next election cycle.
Credit card fees are in the range of 2-3%, so that's potentially more than half leaving the bank from the start (or rather going to the bank :P).

Not sure if Kickstarter is charging extra to cover those fees, it's certainly against Visa/MC rules to do so.
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Sure it is, Intel has a C++ and a Fortran compilers for OSX ...
I don't remember the biography mentioning a private concert at his house (wouldn't surprise me) but Jobs did personally ask Yo Yo Ma to play at his funeral.
Where you seem to see progress, I just see fashion.
If she posted "I played WoW all day and did not do any work" on the face that is a genuine ping on her work ethic. You have to look and see what kind of "work" she does though to ascertain that and other details like did she bill her time anyway.
Steve, like you, would've noticed.
Thanks for the post. It's inspirational to see something like this. You seem to have a very good attitude about working and software development / learning and it helps me to feel better and overcome my own sometimes negative attitude. I'll be reading your whole site.
"Is there a good way to ensure that all the children are killed when the parent dies?"
Halfway through the article, I'd write the Python as:

for i in xrange(1, 101):
s = ""
if not i % 3:
s += "Fizz"
if not i % 5:
s += "Buzz"
if not i % 7:
s += "Bazz"
print s or i

Which can be shortened to:

for i in xrange(1, 101):
s = ""
s += "Fizz" if i % 3 == 0 else ""
s += "Buzz" if i % 5 == 0 else ""
s += "Bazz" if i % 7 == 0 else ""
print s or i

Finishing the article inspired:

print "\n".join(
"".join(filter(None, ("Fizz" if i % 3 == 0 else None,
"Buzz" if i % 5 == 0 else None,
"Bazz" if i % 7 == 0 else None)))
or str(i) for i in xrange(1, 101))
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Obama only wants power, and he's willing to do anything or say anything, even if that means saying the exact opposite of what's really on his official record, in debates.

I'm not a fan of Romney. I'm more of a Ron Paul/Gary Johnson fan, which puts me in antithesis with a lot of stuff Romney has been doing, but Obama just makes me sick to my stomach hearing him go through his lies, thinking the people hearing him then forgot what he said a day or a month earlier, or simply thinking they don't realize that he will do what he and his masters tell him to do if he remains president, regardless of what he says in the campaign or in debates.

I truly believe second-term Obama would be a worse president than first-term Obama, and as an American that affects me directly, because Obama has been a catastrophe internationally, and has made US become more hated abroad. Obama would embarrass and make US even more hated if he remains president. Heck, he already started doing that in his lack of visits abroad during the campaign, in particular Israel and UK.

ETA: Why downvote this but not parent? It's just as heartfelt and true as the parent post - and, by swapping names and minor tweaks, demonstrates the preposterous nature of the post. Shall we debate the objective points instead of offering vapid "_____ only wants power" rhetoric?
This is a myth. The reason that there's no huge premium on seniority in software development is that there are thousands and thousands of 25 year old senior software developers who are extraordinarily well compensated (relative to the broader market) and thus less wiggle room. That's a benefit to working in this field --- you reach your prime earning years earlier --- not a liability for older developers.
Lots of people gave up trying to do their own performance logging, it turns out its a non trivial problem when you get to large scale systems. Which is why the company I work for exists.
I enjoyed it. As a non-professional tinker, knowing even basic words and concepts (e.g. Twisted Python used for networking, something I didn't know before) gives me a key where to look.

Not all slide dumps are useful, but this was interesting to me.
Quick question for someone who knows more about this stuff. Is brightness adjusted for size?

In other words: If the comet is 20% the size of the moon and the same brightness, is it throwing off 20% as much light due to the lower surface area?
You're using one cherry-picked article from 1985 as representative of all journalism of that era.

Nothing's happened to journalism, there's just lots more of it, so you have to do some work to get your filters in place.
I see the same problem: In the third row, the "modal dialog" has its lower boundary aligned with the lower boundary of the third row. The top (containind the 'x' button) is then hidden behind the red banner at the top.

Guess: They display the "dialog" either with its lower boundary aligned to the row of icons you click, or with its upper boundary aligned to the row of icons you click (depending on which direction gives more vertical space for the dialag), but if the total vertical resolution is too small, part of the dialog may still be hidden.
... using node.js
If I was the interviewer in that case I would probably accept that, with note that the person seemed clever. Then I would ask another harder question that I would hope would trip them up if they didn't understand iteration.
See, as somebody who was addicted to the game for a few years during college, I don't see how it is manipulating anybody? The game is fun and it has a lot of content and they keep adding content. It was MY lack of self control that led to me playing the long hours I did, it had NOTHING to do with Blizzards "manipulation".

Blizzard is in the business of making money through making games. It is in their interest to keep users playing month to month because of their recurring fee. In order to do that, they need to keep the game fresh so they introduce a lot of content. People want to play this new content so they keep playing.
Obama, for one, plays poker and drinks beer. Both of which have a dark side. I bet he bluffs in poker.

Will someone make a website saying not to trust him because he is deceitful in poker?
It was because of the high altitude, the climate change. :)
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There are also proof-of-work solutions (as in, CPU time) along those lines. An analysis of that solution came to the conclusion it won't work as a standalone cure-all, but might be part of a more sophisticated overall scheme. (contact me for pointers if you're interested)
Indeed old programming languages get it right:

Fortran (the oldest still in use):

$ cat sub.f
C Prints 0.3-0.2 and 0.2-0.3
PRINT 4, 0.3-0.2, 0.2-0.1
4 FORMAT ('0.3-0.2=',F3.1,' 0.2-0.1=',F3.1)
STOP 1
END
$ gfortran sub.f -o sub
$ ./sub
0.3-0.2=0.1 0.2-0.1=0.1
STOP 1
$

Lisp (the second oldest still in use):

cl-user> (values (- 3/10 2/10) (- 2/10 1/10))
1/10
1/10

Cobol (the third oldest still in use):

$ cat sub.cob
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. DIFFERENCE.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 out32 pic 9.9.
77 out21 pic 9.9.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
subtract 0.2 from 0.3 giving out32.
subtract 0.1 from 0.2 giving out21.
display '; 0.3 - 0.2 = ' out32 .
display '; 0.2 - 0.1 = ' out21 .
goback.

$ cobc -fixed -Wcolumn-overflow -Wparentheses -x sub.cob
$ ./sub
; 0.3 - 0.2 = 0.1
; 0.2 - 0.1 = 0.1
$
Ya thats nice demo ...
great work keep it up
I believe their longterm plan will go turn their platform into a framework to build other niche communities. Sort of like the relationship between Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
Obviously Patrick met the requirements of the loosely worded challenge.

Though I wonder if the inverse would be acceptable. Take 100 files all the same size, but smaller than the filesystem block size. These files are n100 bytes, but take up blocksize100 bytes on the disk. Then, using tar (which itself does not compress, just tacks files end to end with metadata in between), 'compress' them into a single file that takes up fewer disk blocks than before.
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One very small example of why I don't see a correlation:

https://github.com/oscardelben/words-about-code/blob/master/...
If it works (and I hope it doesn't) then I guess it can be viewed as a successful way to win, but it's a bit desperate if they're resorting to attacking something like that over policy or similar.

If it doesn't work, I hope for the most part it means the wider population assumes she'd be good at her job and what she does online is her own business, but if it means younger people think of voting that's also a good thing.
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Everyone at BMW should read this article. They use to understand usability, and that less is more. From window button placement to easy to read VDO gauges.

Now they have iDrive.. Complete mess!
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I'm pretty sure the Apple //e was the first computer I ever touched. That or a TRS-80. But I choose to repress that memory.
I read that as someone who really wasn't able to continue being a chemist into his 50s.
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> However this was just an indignant HN comment against Jeff Atwood who committed the sin orders of magnitude worse by beaming out this nonsense to his tens of thousands of readers.

I agree with your agreement, but it certainly would be an interesting experiment to try to train your brain to take back some of the responsibility you put on list. My memory is relatively weak, so I make lists of things I actually have to do, too.
This was an easy decision for me a while back. As a non-designer, Bootstrap just gives me way more stuff out of the box. I wouldn't know where to start without it. Even if you use all of Foundation (2)'s add-ons, it still doesn't even compare with core Bootstrap, not counting Bootstrap's add-ons. With bootstrap's popularity, it's really easy to find an article explaining how to integrate it with your framework of choice. I feel for most non-designers this is the deciding factor.

Of course since f3 is almost the same as bootstrap now, I think it's more about personal taste.